EP1489525A4 - Information processing apparatus and method - Google Patents

Information processing apparatus and method

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EP1489525A4
EP1489525A4 EP03744979A EP03744979A EP1489525A4 EP 1489525 A4 EP1489525 A4 EP 1489525A4 EP 03744979 A EP03744979 A EP 03744979A EP 03744979 A EP03744979 A EP 03744979A EP 1489525 A4 EP1489525 A4 EP 1489525A4
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Prior art keywords
processing apparatus
information processing
information
processing
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German (de)
French (fr)
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EP1489525A1 (en
EP1489525B1 (en
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Nobuyuki Fujiwara
Motoki Tsunokawa
Tatsuya Narahara
Kazuhiro Watanabe
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Sony Corp
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/47—End-user applications
    • H04N21/482—End-user interface for program selection
    • H04N21/4828—End-user interface for program selection for searching program descriptors
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/23—Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
    • H04N21/232—Content retrieval operation locally within server, e.g. reading video streams from disk arrays
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F16/00—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
    • G06F16/30—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor of unstructured textual data
    • G06F16/33—Querying
    • G06F16/3331—Query processing
    • G06F16/3332—Query translation
    • G06F16/3338—Query expansion
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/47—End-user applications
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/47—End-user applications
    • H04N21/472—End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/47—End-user applications
    • H04N21/482—End-user interface for program selection
EP03744979A 2002-03-27 2003-02-26 Information processing apparatus and method Expired - Fee Related EP1489525B1 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (3)

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JP2002089337 2002-03-27
JP2002089337A JP3627715B2 (en) 2002-03-27 2002-03-27 Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, program, and information processing system
PCT/JP2003/002102 WO2003081472A1 (en) 2002-03-27 2003-02-26 Information processing apparatus and method

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EP1489525A1 EP1489525A1 (en) 2004-12-22
EP1489525A4 true EP1489525A4 (en) 2008-05-28
EP1489525B1 EP1489525B1 (en) 2011-07-27

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EP (1) EP1489525B1 (en)
JP (1) JP3627715B2 (en)
KR (1) KR100921078B1 (en)
WO (1) WO2003081472A1 (en)

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